Name and Surname
Aleksandra Anić
Affiliation
Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade
Contact email
aleksandra.anic@ekof.bg.ac.rs sandraanic@yahoo.com
Short Biography
Aleksandra Anić was born in Belgrade in 1988. She finished her undergraduate and graduate studies at the Faculty of Economy at the University of Belgrade. She defended her PhD dissertation, “Women’s Activity, the Gender Gap in Income, the Trap of Inactivity and Unemployment: An Econometric Analysis for Serbia,” in 2019. She is employed at the Faculty of Economy since 2011 where is currently an Assistant Professor. She is the recipient of several scholarships and awards, including the prestigious scholarship The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund of the Tokyo Fund. She worked as a researcher on numerous projects financed by international organization (such as USAID, UNDP, RRPP, and EC) and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development as well as The Fund for Science. She also writes for the workforce section of the Quartal Monitor. She has published several papers in international and national journals as well as book chapters in international books. She is also a co-author of a collection of assignment in econometry.
Research abstract
This research project seeks to examine the causes of very high level of child poverty in Serbia as well as to propose policies that would reduce poverty and inequality. Using the latest data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions and using probit methods, the probability of a child being poor is estimated depending on a number of socio-economic characteristics of the family: parents’ level of education and their status in the labor market as well as the size and structure of the household, the region and the type of settlement. The project also examines the impact of tax policy and social transfers on child poverty. Previous research has shown that our system of taxation and social benefits has very little redistributive potential. Recent data show that the already low coverage of poor children by social benefits has been further reduced in recent years.